Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows.
Hicks DM, Ouvrard P, Baldock KC, Baude M, Goddard MA, Kunin WE, Mitschunas N, Memmott J, Morse H, Nikolitsi M, Osgathorpe LM, Potts SG, Robertson KM, Scott AV, Sinclair F, Westbury DB, Stone GN.
Hicks DM, et al.
PLoS One. 2016 Jun 24;11(6):e0158117. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158117. eCollection 2016.
PLoS One. 2016.
PMID: 27341588
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Seed mix species yielding the highest rewards per flower included Leontodon hispidus, Centaurea cyanus and C. nigra for nectar, and Papaver rhoeas, Eschscholzia californica and Malva moschata for pollen. Perennial meadows produced up to 20x more nectar and up to 6x …
Seed mix species yielding the highest rewards per flower included Leontodon hispidus, Centaurea cyanus and C. nigra for nectar, and Papaver …